US Officials Recommend Encryption Apps Amid Chinese Telecom Hacking
A consortium of global law enforcement agencies led by Britain’s National Crime Agency announced a takedown operation this week against two major […]
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A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections
In recent years, commercial spyware has been deployed by more actors against a wider range of victims, but the prevailing narrative has […]
She Was a Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She’s a Crypto Laundering Kingpin
OFAC announced sanctions against the founder, as well as Elena Chirkinyan and Andrej Bradens, who also goes by the surname Carenoks, both […]
FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
The United States Federal Trade Commission is taking action against two American data brokers accused of unlawfully trafficking in people’s sensitive location […]
He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
At around 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee learned, to his shock, […]
Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
The CFPB’s idea of using existing US law to regulate data brokers is not novel. In February 2023, a group of consumer-focused […]
Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams
Researchers regularly see malicious ads in search results representing themselves as coming from legitimate businesses and organizations. Whether it’s a regional municipality, […]
The Pressure Is on for Big Tech to Regulate the Broken Digital Advertising Industry
Digital advertising is a whopping $700 billion (£530 billion) industry that remains largely unregulated, with few laws in place to protect brands […]
The US Army’s Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On
This newfound push appears to have yielded several fresh experiments with exoskeleton technology in recent years. In 2018, Lockheed Martin was awarded […]
Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car’s Automated Driving System
Tesla, which disbanded its public relations team in 2021, did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment. The camera systems the researchers […]